Prof. Jax attended the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) in Brighton with some of his assistants. Johannes Fabry, Maximilian Kentgens and Matthias Schrammen presented their research results in the areas "Acoustic Aqualization for Headphones", "Dimensionality Reduction of Higher Order Ambisonics", and "Nonlinear Acoustic Echo Cancellation".

Since 2014, professors, postdocs, doctoral students, students, scientists and non-scientists at RWTH Aachen University and Forschungszentrum Jülich have been honoured in order to embed the idea of innovation and foundation throughout the university.

The Düsseldorf office "RKW Architektur +" wins the public procurement of the Bau- und Liegenschaftsbetrieb NRW (BLB NRW) Aachen for the "Cube 3". The building complements the existing institute buildings "Cube 1" and "Cube 2" of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology.

The performance of ANC headphone systems depends strongly on the underlying acoustic paths. Former measurements have shown that these can vary significantly from person to person. This effect can partly be reduced by a calibration the acoustic front end.

In November 2017 we reported on the successful patent application for active suppression of the occlusion effect (DE102016011719B3) by the inventors Stefan Liebich, Carlotta Anemüller, and Daniel Rüschen.

Our research assistants were with their company Ferncast and Mayah Communications at the "30. Tonmeistertagung" in Cologne. There they presented methods and devices for streaming complex scenarios, e.g. from a radio station to the internet.